Friday, September 16, 2011

Week 1 - City-Scape "stumble uponed"

Found this image during a random session of stumble upon. I am unsure of who did it or where it came from, as I have saved it to my computer long ago. I placed it in a folder marked "motivation." This folder contains several images both illustration and photographic, that I find inspiring. The folder is selected as my desktop wallpaper, so the images constantly rotate on the screen. I picked this image because it is very busy and fun. It has a lot of Japanese influences, which is a culture I very much admire. As I continue to push through college to become a theme park designer, I find this image has a lot of those qualities found in concept art of parks. It shows a large amount of space, with different areas of focus. It has characters doing different actions, which help establish the look and feel of the environment. The lighting and shadows help create a mood. I find that if you look at this image long enough, you can soon see it as a real place. That is what is most inspiring about it, any image that can be created into something real.

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The amount of detail is amazing. It's a kind of illustration that brings you back for more and more. I can look at this for 10 minutes, come back an hour later, and still find new things each time. I would like to know the process of making something like this. It a very immersive piece. The city looks alive, busy, worn, and lived in. It has its own architecture style which makes the city more believable. Can anyone find out who did this?

I think I see a chocobo. Anyways, what's nice about this is that even though I've never seen buildings like this before in my life, there's still things like ads, stairs with railings, cars, trees, and slides. These little clues really make you believe that it's a plausible little city briming with life.

This piece is so chaotic and busy, but in a good way! It reminds me of some futuristic city, but not like others I have seen before. This city has an old rustic feel to it. It kind of has a dark/ eerie feel to it also being like is this our future? It just has so many aspects to it, that it would take a long time to dissect the image as a whole.